chisel rack ideas...

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William R. Duffield, on the Cohansey

>Here are some ideas that might give you a start. I made this one from scraps of hardwood and plywood, and added functionality to it over a long period. The main carcase is some hardwood cutoff from the end of a table top, in which the grain runs vertically, with several slots plowed into both sides, sandwiched between two pieces of doorskin (3 mm lauan plywood), and another strip of hardwood glued along the bottom to keep points from sliding all the way through. It is open on both ends, to allow dust and shavings out. On the front, I glued some more small blocks of wood, with plowed grooves for card scrapers and a backsaw. On the top back, I glued another block of hardwood, with a quarter inch rabbet on the inside bottom, to hook over the various mounting devices. You can use a plough plane or a tablesaw to make the grooves and rabbets. If I find something doesn't fit, I just enlarge one of the grooves with an incanal gouge, until it does fit.

It is portable, holds quite a few tools, including files, rasps, chisels, gouges, a few scrapers, a backsaw, squares, pencils, picks, shovels, etc. I use it in three different configuations. First, I can hang it on the side of my tool tote, which has 1/4" thick sides.

Second, I can hang on the shop wall, on a bracket made of four scraps of 3/4" plywood, with a quarter inch rabbet in the top edge of the front plate, screwed to a stud.

Third, I can set it on the benchtop, on a rack made of hardwoods, also with a quarter inch square rabbet in the top edge. Hanging on the back edge, is a holster that holds a blockplane. The tool rack has overflowed, and I have moved a few marking tools to a block with a 7/8" diameter hole drilled in the top and a wine cork hammered into it.

Sorry for the fuzzy pictures. I threw this presentation together quickly (compare the time on the clock to the time of the post), and didn't feel like going back to the shop, in the cold, to retake them.

Re: chisel rack ideas... *LINK*

Eric Hedberg

>Will,

Popular Woodworking December 2003 had a great idea for a chisel rack that could be hung on the wall or carried to the bench. I intend to build one when I get a chance. A link to the abstract is at the bottom. (Hey Chris, would make a great free post on your site don't you think?)

Eric


http://www.popularwoodworking.com/store/viewabstract.asp?view=1703

FWW Article...

Scott in Douglassville, PA

>There was a nice cabinet in an article in Fine Woodworking sometime in the past couple years. Lemme know if you don't have it, I'll scan the photo for you.

Essentially, it was a shallow cabinet with shallow doors, and many places to hang chisels. The hangers (for lack of a real term) were horizontal pieces of wood that were drilled and countersunk to hold the chisel, and a slot cut through to the hole to slide them in.

Re: chisel rack ideas...

William R. Duffield, on the Cohansey

>Here's another one, found on the Internet at CarvingWorld.com. I like it because the concept is extendable and self-supporting, like a folding screen, it's really easy to put together, and its adaptable to different size pipe. If you find the PVC pipes �sthetically distasteful, just drill the holes and dovetail an upright frame member into each end.

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Scott Post

>Here's how I hold my chisels. It's a small shelf on the wall behind my bench. I drilled holes with a forstner bit so they break out of the front of the shelf. To remove/replace a chisel I lift it up then twist it so the narrow edge of the chisel can slip through the gap. I have a similar rack for my bench gouges.




For my Marples glue scrapers & other odds and ends (marking knives, pencils, marking gages, etc) I use holders made up by cutting dados then gluing on a backing board to form pockets. I also made a hook so they hang over the back side of my bench's tool tray. I got this idea from taking classes at Tod Herrli's shop.

As an aside, the one thing I've noticed about visiting other people's shops is you come away with all kinds of neat ideas for little things like this. Lumber storage, how they set up their sharpening area, lighting, etc. Taken individually they don't seem like a big deal but they all add up to make your own shop more organized and pleasant to use.

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Will in K.C.

>What great ideas!! I will process this info and build one over the next week or so. I will try to post a pic. I have a digital camera, but I am not sure how to get a picture on this message board. I will look into it. Thanks again for all the help.

Will

Indeed, plus Springfield show

Christopher Schwarz

>In fact, any one who is going to the Springfield, Mass., WoodWorks show this weekend can stop by our booth and see the rack in person, filled with the new Ashley Iles chisels.

(I'll ask the web people to put that plan up as a free download.)

Also in the tool porn department, I'll be bringing the Shepherd Panel Plane I built, the Ray Iles smoother, a LN #4 with York-pitch frog, my modified LV LA smooth, the LV shoulder plane, the LV scraper plane and whatever else I can cram in the luggage.

Oh yes, the two new LV spokeshaves. I've been testing them quite a bit and have some opinions (as always).

Chris

Posting pics

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>Dirt simple now (thank you, Ellis!). To quote from the information on the "Post New Message" menu: "If you'd like to include a picture, but don't have a Web site, you can upload a graphic image directly from your own computer. Just put the path to the file in the "Optional Graphic Upload" input box, below. (Use the "Browse" button if you're not quite sure where to find it.) The file must be in GIF (.gif) or JPEG (.jpg or .jpeg) format, and can be no larger than 40 kilobytes in size."

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Bob Rozaieski in Eastern PA

>I liked this one two, except I intend to mount it into a tool cabinet rather than on the wall and then it can be moved to the bench from the cabinet and back.

Hey Will!

Roger Nixon

>Will you be going to the woodworking show in KC next month? Bill Ward, Ernie Miller and I will meet for breakfast before the show if you'd like to join us.

Re: chisel rack kludge

William Claspy in Cleveland

>William-

Sweet idea for a chisel rack! I too am doing some reorganizing in the shop and am looking for ideas.

I remember you posting a report about that tool tote in the pictures. Is the report something that is in the archive, or is it gone now that the Pond is gone? I'd love to get a blow-by-blow on that one. Every time I watch St. Roy, I think about making one like his- it's hard to tell, but it seems like the long sides on his don't angle out like yours. Yes?

Thanks!

William in Cleveland

For those of us who can't make the show.....

Eric Hedberg

>Chris,

Will your opinions on the new Veritas spokeshaves be showing up anytime soon in print? I've been playing with mine for a while now and am curious what your thoughts are.

Eric (I'm just glad you didn't have those chisels out at the St. Paul show. They're calling out to me.)

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Jay Hanks/ Columbus Ohio

>I am not sure if it is just me but I can nver view the pictures William D. posts, I have tried I.E. and Netscape and the imagine is not there, just a little box with an x through it. I thought it just might have been a fluke for that day but not so. This is at work and home as well. Jay

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Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX

>I can see them fine; but I do notice that they're on AOL, maybe your version of browser, computer, and or ISP has problems with that.

Pam

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Ernie Miller Topeka

>They allways come up for me. You had better figure this out as he post some of the nicest stuff.

Marples glue scrapers...

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond CA

>funny! That what mine are used for now also.

A very inefficient cludge... (pic)

Jonathan Kaplan (OR)

>But I like it. As my chisel collection grows, I plan on just adding to it...

It's a good solution, I think, if you have a lot of wall space. :)

Thats great

Jim in Burlington Ontario

>That's a great idea it would look super on the doors of a tool cabinet.

Re: chisel rack kludge

William R. Duffield, on the Cohansey

>The one I put in the Pond "article" is different. It was heavier, walnut, with more sophisticated dovetail joints, and not intended to be knocked around in the back of a truck like this one.

I've built several of these, and have a few more "in the works" (pieces in a box, waiting for the appropriate "roundtuit). I even have another one that is assembled but not glued up that I use when I need to take two totes full of tools, batteries, charger, thermos, lunch, etc., down to the docks. Luckily, I had not glued that one up yet when I dropped a boat and trailer on top of it, otherwise it would have been a bit more difficult to repair the shattered handle.

This one was inspired by the one Roy built and uses, that you see in the opening scenes in his show, but I have changed many things about the ones I build. The most important idea I have kept is the geometry. It has three hopper sides, and one vertical side. The vertical side is inboard when you are carrying it, so the upper edge is not digging into your thigh. That is an idea that really works well. I don't remember whether Roy used a tusk tenon to hold the ends in place, but that construction is essential to its strength.

Roy's is built of material that appears to be 1/2" or 5/8" thick, probably pine. I haven't checked his book for details, so I'm guessing, but I have found that 1/4" is sufficient if you build it from tulip poplar, or even walnut, as long as you use 1/4" plywood, in a groove, for the bottom. I suspect that Roy's bottom is just nailed on.

My friend Raymond W. (from Trenton) created a PDF file of the Neanderthal Haven thread wherein one of the fancy ones was presented. I just copied it to a place where you can download it, here: http://members.aol.com/loxtoolworks/tooltote.pdf

Re: Viewing Pictures

William R. Duffield, on the Cohansey

>I'm grasping at straws, here, but I have an idea, based on another problem Ted Owen had viewing someone else's photos. Mine are posted at a URL that starts http://members.aol.com/.... Ted seemed to be the only one who could not see some other photos posted at http://w3..... Maybe you have a firewall, or some sort of spam screener that blocks access to URL's that do not begin with http://www...? Does this seem plausible?

Re: chisel rack kludge

William Claspy in Cleveland

>My friend Raymond W. (from Trenton) created a PDF file of the Neanderthal Haven thread wherein one of the fancy ones was presented. I just copied it to a place where you can download it, here: http://members.aol.com/loxtoolworks/tooltote.pdf

Thanks, William! That's the one I remember.

Do you recall in which of his books Roy discusses his tote? It's not in the first one, which is the only one I own...

Cheers!

Bill

Re: I have no clue to Roy's book???

William R. Duffield, on the Cohansey

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Re: I have no clue to Roy's book??? *LINK*

William Claspy in Cleveland

>Just used Amazon which has the table of contents scanned :-) and it looks like it is the second chapter of the Woodwright's Apprentice.

Cheers!

Bill


Woodwright's Apprentice TOC

Re: Viewing Pictures

Jay Hanks

>I guess so I dont do much with web pages, just a average user. The thing that makes me wonder about it is I cant view them at home or at work, 2 different types of access. I sometimes have problems with Netscape and viewing but switching to I.E. usually takes care of things. I will play around with things at home and see what I can find out. Thanks Jay